Harp

Harp – a love story beyond boundaries

Talking Location With Author Nidhi Dalmia – Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi

Humayun’s Tomb area in Delhi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There is always lots to see when you visit Delhi but for me, the site that you cannot miss is the UNESCO World Heritage site, Humayun’s Tomb. The author at Humayun’s Tomb Humayun’s Tomb is the tomb of...

Feign illness to take the waters at Lake Balaton, Hungary

The Victorians and early Edwardians were always very keen on visiting “the waters” whenever one felt unwell. It was felt that a visit to say Bath or Lake Geneva could refreshen and work wonders for one’s health. Some lucky folks, were considered “professional invalids” as...

Harp – A Brief Idea about the Book

What made you turn to writing? What is the inspiration and purpose of the book? We all have stories to tell. I always wanted to write. “Catch your dreams before they slip away,’ sang The Rolling Stones. I wanted to describe the hope and idealism of...

Delhi’s Aga Khan Heritage

A mammoth undertaking to restore and develop Delhi’s Nizamuddin will end this time next year. How has it transformed one of the most historic and touristy areas of the country? This could be the closest thing to paradise. Here, the world is all grass and birds,...

Rebuilding Delhi’s incredible heritage

JINNAH HOUSE

A SPECIAL LOCATION The house of the Ambassador of the Netherlands in India, on 10 Aurangzeb Road, is situated in one of New Delhi's greenest and most exclusive areas. Called the Lutyens Bungalow Zone, or simply Lutyens' Delhi, the approximately 25 to 30 square kilometre urban...

Revisit the music of the 1960s

Music does not know the boundaries of time and space . It is universal in its appeal and transcends man made artificial barriers. It cuts through all that to go straight to the heart . It does not require language though that helps to understand...

The films that shaped the sixties and seventies

1965: The Sound of Music, currently the fifth highest grossing film in history, was definitely a high point in Hollywood musicals. Maria, portrayed by Julie Andrews (who had charmed audiences in the 1964 hit Mary Poppins), leaves her convent in Salzburg to become a governess...

A peek behind the Iron Curtain

Following World War II, Europe was divided into two parts from the end of 1945 to the end of the Cold War in 1991. In a tactical move by the Soviets to safeguard itself with a buffer border of countries it controlled, the West European...